Letter to:

Letter to: 
Yemaya #30 (future WNBA All-star) & The John Carroll Women's Basketball Patriots:

     You guys shouldn't hold on to loses like that. I'm not saying you guys

shouldn't be upset because that's natural for anyone to be upset. If your not

upset, then that means you didn't  believe you would win. But you should take

every loss and use it as motivation to win the next game. Watching you guys

play, I noticed you guys often tend to mentally give up when you see 1:00 left 

and  you're down by 8 but the game isn't over yet! And you guys start to play

like you already know you loss. If you keep the momentum up the entire game and

actually shoot the ball... Not just throw it up hoping it goes in, the points

would accumulate and you guys would actually win. You guys gotta make the

opponent work for it because 1/2 the time they're not even all that good. I

understand how unfair the refs could be. At times it makes me wonder how the

heck did they get certified to be refs. But that's all apart of the life lesson

that comes out of playing basketball. Things will be unfair but you have to 

learn how to be strong and bounce back from the fall. We all fall down in life 

but only we can choose whether we get back up or not. This is all apart of your

story. Fail your way to success Maya.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/harford/sports/ph-ag-girls-basketball-0104-20111229,0,5451954.story